[ale] Can't Log In After LVM2 Removal

[Jeff Hubbs]

Yep, SELinux was the culprit.

On 5/24/10 12:10 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> works best with UUID names
>
> You may need to turn off selinux as  a test. If that solves the 
> problem, then you need to force a relabel with touch /.autorelabel
>
> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist at att.net 
> <mailto:jhubbslist at att.net>> wrote:
>
>     Fstab was changed from the labels to the device names (e.g.
>     /dev/sda3).  Are you saying that won't work in RH-alikes?
>
>
>     On 5/24/10 11:37 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>     centos and RH use partition names in /etc/fstab. If the LVM stack
>>     is removed, the partition naming is now gone.
>>
>>     It's easier to reinstall and manually create partitions than to
>>     migrate from LVM to not-LVM.
>>
>>     On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist at att.net
>>     <mailto:jhubbslist at att.net>> wrote:
>>
>>         I'm trying to take the default LVM2 arrangement out from
>>         within a CentOS
>>         5.4 install and replace it with the classic
>>         three-primary-partition
>>         arrangement...my machine boots up and I get a login prompt,
>>         but when I
>>         try to log in I see for an instant "no shell. permission
>>         denied."  Net
>>         doesn't start so I can't shell in.
>>
>>         Permissions of /root, /bin/bash, /etc/passwd and everything
>>         else I can
>>         think of are rwx for root...the tarball I made from the LV
>>         contents used
>>         a "p" in the args coming and going.
>>
>>         I've put some things in root's crontab and rc.local that do
>>         file writes;
>>         I am led to believe that my / is read-only when I boot.
>>
>>         I can boot up to single-user mode and my / is read-write, for
>>         what it's
>>         worth.
>>
>>         What might I have missed?
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